How much research I have to do depends on the nature of the story. For fantasy, none at all.
All the movies that I make in some ways have to be the story of my life. There are different chapters in my life.
As an actor, I’m attracted to drama; as a director, it’s humor – because it’s the story of my life, and I can’t be that serious about it. Being alone is a big theme in all my movies, both as a director and as an actress.
In a weird way, that’s the beauty of being an actor. You get to live out things that you’re afraid of, and you get to say, ‘Well, maybe I can get to the end of it and survive it intact and I can be the hero of my own story.’ It’s kind of a way of exorcising fear.
Political reporters and political professionals rushed to judgment against Romney because we crave clear, unambiguous story lines.
The story is a testament to the consolations that get me through and give meaning to every area of my life.
The truth came slowly like a story told by people interrupting each other.
To be human is to be in a story.
A lie hides the truth. A story tries to find it.
When I begin a story at my desk, the window to my back, the path is not there. As I start to walk, I make the path.
Whoever wants to tell a variety of stories ought to have a variety of beginnings.
The dead and past stories that I have told again in divers fashions, are not set down without authority.
It’s hard when you’re doing a film based on a true story to really figure out what all those relationships were.
The pain was quite extraordinary. And yet also weirdly welcome and restorative, bringing him news of his aliveness and his caughtness in a story larger than himself.
I would act whether or not I was paid. I would be involved in ensemble groups. I would have the desire to tell stories.
Sherlock and Watson are a love story.
I seldom get into the mood of the story. It’s acting. I go in, I act, I quit. I don’t take anything away from it.
Most of the time it’s the role. Sometimes it’s the story and sometimes it just the paycheck. It’s the little movies that come out as stories or the fact that I have work to go out, you know what I’m saying, you can only be out so long without work, you start getting antsy.
What I am telling you, before you begin my story, is this – two things: I crave truth. And I lie.
People don’t care how you feel. You need to paint pictures, you need to tell stories. That’s what people want. They want to be entertained. Then all of the other stuff kind of filters across as part of the whole thing.